Signet Classics: Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) 基本信息 Author: Henry David Thoreau Mass Market Paperback: 318 pages Publisher: Signet Classics; Reissue edition (19 Sept. 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451532163 ISBN-13: 978-0451532169 Product Dimensions: 108 x 171 x 23mm | 164g 书籍简介 Henry David Thoreau"s masterwork Walden is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in ... 展开完整描述 ▼
Signet Classics: Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
基本信息
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Mass Market Paperback: 318 pages
Publisher: Signet Classics; Reissue edition (19 Sept. 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451532163
ISBN-13: 978-0451532169
Product Dimensions: 108 x 171 x 23mm | 164g
书籍简介
Henry David Thoreau"s masterwork Walden is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
Henry David Thoreau"s masterwork Walden is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle—and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.
These simple but profound musings—as well as "Civil Disobedience," his protest against the government"s interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.
With an Introduction by W.S. Merwin and a New Afterword by William Howarth
作者简介
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, the town where he would live for most of his life. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, he is the most famous of the American Transcendentalists, a group of philosophical thinkers who frequently explored the relationship between human beings and the natural world. He was educated at Harvard, and over the course of his life took on a number of different occupations, including lead-pencil maker, schoolteacher and surveyor.
Thoreau was outspokenly critical of the American government, fervently opposed to slavery, and an advocate of passive resistance. Whilst Walden (1854) is his best-known work, his 1849 essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ has inspired non-violent political activists the world over, including Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr, and his nature writings are considered ground-breaking works in ecology. He died in his hometown of Concord in 1862.
